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Joanna Abraham, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Improving collaborative practices in healthcare using principles and techniques from informatics to promote patient safety, quality and care continuity

Key words
Communication, Decision support, mental health, telemedicine

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Yousef Abu-Amer, PhD

J. Albert Key Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Investigating molecular mechanisms underlying inflammation-induced degenerative skeletal diseases including joint degeneration, inflammatory arthritis and osteolysis

Key words
Musculoskeletal, inflammatory osteolysis, degenerative, bone biology, Signal transduction, NF-kB, Osteoclast, Bone Metabolism, Joint

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Nada Abumrad, PhD

Robert C. Atkins Professor of Obesity Research in Medicine

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Fatty acids regulate energy balance and tissue renewal. Dysfunction of this regulation causes disease

Key words
fatty acid, transport, disease risk

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Sarah Ackerman, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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Research summary
Understanding how glia shape developmental and pathological plasticity

Key words
astrocytes, plasticity, circuits, development, myelination

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Hema Adhikari, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary

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Arpana Agrawal, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Human and Statistical Genetics

Research summary
Genetic and environment studies of addictions

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Gustav Akk, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Function and modulation of transmitter-gated ion channels

Key words
GABA, ion channel, neurophysiology, nicotinic receptor, pharmacology, structure-function relations

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Ream Al-Hasani, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Understanding the endogenous opioid systems to defeat addiction, ameliorate affective disorders, and relieve chronic pain.

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Matthew Albrecht, PhD

Assistant Curator of Conservation Biology

Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
Ecology and conservation of rare plants

Key words
plant conservation; reintroduction biology; plant population dynamics; rare plant ecology; restoration ecology; seed and seedling ecology; ex situ conservation

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Jennifer Alexander-Brett, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Respiratory immunobiology, with particular interest in cytokine pathways associated with lung epithelial progenitors

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